A community was demonized on Reddit. They built Lemmy, time and money. They freely handed their work over to anyone that wanted, and knowing that such scaling meant demonization once again. Eventually, as tensions rose, and after significant internal discussion and an unenforceable referendum vote, they decided it was probably best to rip the band aid off by individually choosing to instigate the collective’s hypocritic perceptions.

You don’t know. And, that’s exactly how they’d have it.